/warpamma/i-/, ARMA-pa-mi-
‘armed (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 2185
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/warpamma/i-/, ARMA-pa-mi-
‘armed (?)’1.1.1Transmission
Found once in an inscription from Tabal, the attestation of this hapax legomenon dates to the mid-8th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| part. acc. sg. c. | /warpammin/ | ARMA-pa-mi-NEG3 | TOPADA, §22 (Tabal) |
It is not entirely clear in TOPADA §22 whether or not the sign NEG3 (*332c) is to be assigned to the present lexeme or should be seen as independent of it, cf. the discussion in the spelling below.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this lexeme is reasonably certain in that the logogram ARMA (*273) is strongly associated with the word family around /warp(i)-/ ‘weapon, tool’, and the following syllabic sign <pa> further strengthens the case. Regarding the ending of the word, however, there has been some discussion among scholars. Thus, Hawkins 2000a:458 advocates reading the sign NEG3 (*332c) /na/ and seeing it as part of an acc. sg. c. case ending, much in the same way the very similar sign NEG2 (*332b), which also has the syllabic value <ná>, is used in several cases in TOPADA. Weeden 2010a:54 incl. f. 93 regards NEG3 as separate from the present lexeme and interprets it as the negative particle, while analysing the resulting /warpammi/ as the nom./acc. pl. n. of the participle /-mma/i-/, which he deems to be an i-stem.
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning suggested for this lexeme is based both on the context it appears in as well as its assumed link to the word family around /warp(i)-/ ‘weapon, tool’. In its textual context, /warpamma/i-/ seems to describe the fighting power provided to the author of the inscription by the MAGNUS-zi/a EQUUS(ANIMA)-zi/a, i.e. /urazzanzi azzuwassinzi/ ‘the generals of the horse guard’, i.e. ‘armed’. Because of its context, it is unlikely that /warpamma/i-/ could instead be linked to the verb /warp-?/ ‘to lock, to imprison (?)’.
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1.1.5Stem
The word appears to be a participle in /-mma/i-/, showing i-mutation as expected. Its inflectional base can be assumed to be either /warp-(ti)/, /warpa-(i)/ or /warpa-(ti)/, a verb otherwise unattested in HLuw., but which would fit well into the word family around the noun /warp(i)-/ ‘weapon, tool’.
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For the lemma head see HLuw. /warp(i)-/.